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Ward Cunningham, the inventor of the Wiki-wiki Web:
"I thought there would be failure modes, but I wasn't surprised that communities found ways around them. I thought it was important that when the organization proved to be wrong, people could reorganize on their own, that organization could emerge." (previously)

[edit] Help Editing Wiki Pages

Click on Edit this page on top of web page or edit on the right (if available) for a section
Type in text
Click on Show Preview. Modify if required.
Add summary if required. Click on Save page.

Practice editing in the Sandbox. Other editing hints are there and will be in Help:Editing.

[edit] Using Raw Signature

The normal way of typing signatures is to type ~~~

or ~~~~ if you want the time and date added at the end.

To spice this up so it links to both your user page and user talk page ...

click the link at the top right to go to Preferences ...

and using your own user name [in place of -ts-] ...

put this as the Raw Signature:

[[User:-ts-|-ts-]][[User_talk:-ts-|talk]]

now ~~~ gives you: -ts-^talk

and ~~~~ : -ts-^talk 13:39, 28 Jul 2005 (UTC)

examples:

[[User:Lobster|Lob]][[User_talk:Lobster|talk]] = Lob^talk

[[User:Lynnkub|Lynn]][[User_talk:Lynnkub|talk]] = Lynn^talk

[[User:Vcoo|Vcoo]][[User_talk:Vcoo|talk]] = Vcoo^talk

[[User:HDThoreau|HD]][[User_talk:HDThoreau|talk]] = HD^talk

Math Markup

it appears that the math markup is now available.

<math> \LaTeX </math> = WikiTeX: latex reported a failure, namely:

This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
entering extended mode
(./2cac957197c74eed82435392e8310
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel  and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b
ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, e
stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar, norsk, polis
h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish, swedish, tur
kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsfonts/amssymb.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsfonts/amsfonts.sty))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsmath/amsmath.sty
For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option.
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsmath/amstext.sty
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsmath/amsgen.sty))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsmath/amsbsy.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsmath/amsopn.sty))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsmath/amscd.sty)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/concmath/concmath.sty)
(./2cac957197c74eed82435392e8310.aux)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/concmath/ot1ccr.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/concmath/omlccm.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/concmath/omsccsy.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/concmath/omxccex.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsa.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsb.fd)
! You can't use `\spacefactor' in display math mode.
\@->\spacefactor 
                 \@m 
l.5 \begin{equation*} \LaTeX
                             \end{equation*}
[1] (./2cac957197c74eed82435392e8310.aux) )
(see the transcript file for additional information)
Output written on 2cac957197c74eed82435392e8310.dvi (1 page, 332 bytes).
Transcript written on 2cac957197c74eed82435392e8310.log.

apparently not yet. -ts-

Bullet list (one per line)

adding * at the beginning of a line will form a bullet list.

1st bullet
2nd bullet
etc ...

Number list

adding # at the beginning of a line will form a number list.

1st
2nd
etc ...

New Header sections

=New section=

Separating sentences

use a 'space' between lines

Indent

adding : at the beginning of a line will indent.

no indent

one indent

two

three

Dividing line

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Line Break

If you put a break command 
at the end of a line you can get a
single spacing and format your poetry
formatted like you wish instead of being
forced into the double spacing or ...
into using a beginning space which results in

having this blue box
surrounding your work.

Font Size (using HTML)

<font size = 1> Text </font> =  Text
<font size = 2> Text </font> =  Text
<font size = 3> Text </font> =  Text
<font size = 4> Text </font> =  Text
<font size = 5> Text </font> =  Text

Or, instead of using absolute sizes, you can adjust font sizes relative to the ones that the user has chosen. So for instance, if a user with visual difficulties has already set his or her font sizes to be large, you make them larger and will not accidentally set them smaller than the user can read.

<font size = +1> Text </font> =  Text
<font size = +2> Text </font> =  Text
<font size = +3> Text </font> =  Text
<font size = +4> Text </font> =  Text
<font size = +5> Text </font> =  Text

You can also make a font smaller:

<font size = -2> Text </font> =  Text

Font Color (using HTML)

<font color="Red"> Text </font>   =  Text
<font color="Green"> Text </font> =  Text
<font color="Purple"> Text </font> =  Text

<font color=#0000FF> Text </font> =  Text

even R A I N B O W C O L O R S are possible

(Font colors may look different on different screens, but the basic colors such as red, green, blue, black and white are fairly consistent.)

Font color, face, size

<font color=#FF8890 face=Verdana size=5>
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

<font color=#0088CC face=Comic Sans MS size=6> 
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

(If the viewer does not have the font you select on his or her computer, it may not look the way you expect.)

Other HTML Commands

<B> Text </B> = Bold Text
<I> Text </I> = Italic Text
<U> Text </U> = Underlined Text
<S> Text </S> = Strikeout Text
or any combination:
<U><B> Text </B></U> = Underline/Bold Text

more commands will be added as discovered.

(Most basic HTML commands will work, but wiki also has "easier" ways to specify some commands like Bold. Triple single quotes, like '''word''' around text will make it bold, like word.)